Originally Posted by
student88
I don't see how my airline is making a buck from allowing passengers to bring on a large bag into the cabin without a weight restriction free of charge!. It's greed from the passengers. So used to paying $10 for a one way ticket they don't want to pay another $10 to put their bag in the hold.
And then they get pi**ed at us for not having enough room to stow the baggage in the cabin!
Sorry but there really is no rocket science here.
We just flew with Virgin from Gatwick to Montego Bay. Our baggage entitlement is one piece of hold luggage each (max 23 Kgs) and one piece of hand baggage each. We check in one standard suitcase each and get on board with a small back pack/ handbag each, no problems.
When we fly with Ryan Air/Easy Jet etc there is no hold baggage allowance hence we purchase a max size carry on case. If everyone does the same just where are we all going to put these cases as the overhead bins will not take them all.
If the airline allowed us a piece of hold luggage as part of the ticket cost that is the option we would take and your problems would disappear, so blame your airline for trying to make a buck as opposed to us pax trying to save a buck
